Quotes About Creativity

Sometimes I don't go into the studio for quite a while because I haven't found enough good songs. They have to have a certain caliber and connect with me because I'm going to be playing them for the rest of my life. I start off with a circle of friends whose songs I love anyway.

I think I have always tried to connect my comedy to my art.

I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.

I've found I sometimes have the best success working on characters I didn't really connect to right away.

There are so many fun things that you live that you can write about and people of all ages can connect to.

I connect music to the emotions that come from relationships, so most of the songs that I write are inspired by those circumstances, emotions, feelings, all that kind of stuff.

I like to connect with the other actors in a fantasy situation.

If you connect with an artist because of what they make as a body of work, you feel like they're your friend. You feel like you're on the journey of connection with them because they see the world the same way you do. That's so powerful, and if you use that, you can genuinely change minds.

As an artist, I don't care about where we are in the charts and all that. The important thing to me is to connect with a creative project.

Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

For me, writing stories is one way of feeling connected to the universe and God.

I used to have to think about awful things to get myself emotionally connected to something.

I love writing. I feel more connected to that than I do a lot of the other things.

When you write something you know, you're making a story that will work, whether or not there's bits taken. It's always funny to me when people say, 'Well, it's clearly autobiographical,' and I say, 'Well, how do you know my autobiography?' Certainly, there are things that are connected, but I just think it's a very interesting assumption.

Love and the imagination are connected.

There is a certain kind of fire that happens when you fall in love with a musician. I guess you understand one another because you're connected by a creative desire.

I don't really care about audio quality. If people saw some of the ways that I record stuff, they'd see I don't care in that respect. I obviously care about things sounding good, but I think quality exists through other things like emotionally connecting with a lyric or a feeling, or whatever.

I think connecting natural elements and musicology is probably pretty idiosyncratic of me, so it is hard to imagine anyone else going down that route.

It feels really good that people are connecting to my music so much.

I had to figure out that finding my place was not about race but about creativity, and connecting with other artists helped me find my voice.

I have always tried to create bridges that are more than a connecting structure - places in their own right.

I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made.

What I love about film is that everybody often connects to something so different, and things you couldn't anticipate when you were making the film, so you just make it as honest as possible.

My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth.